You could search for years and still never find something that Trump cannot strip of its beauty. It’s an extraordinary gift

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

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🚨Our new Governance special issue is out (open access!) "The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy: From the Regulatory State to a Transformational State," w/my amazing co-editors ‪@donatodc.bsky.social & @manuelamoschella.bsky.social. ‬ doi.org/10.1111/gove... 🧵 What we argue, and why it matters:

New Special Issue Article: The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy: From the Regulatory State to a Transformational State From: @donatodc.bsky.social , @katemcnamara.bsky.social & @manuelamoschella.bsky.social Read here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Our new Governance special issue is out (open access!) "The New Politics of EU Industrial Policy: From the Regulatory State to a Transformational State," w/my amazing co-editors ‪@donatodc.bsky.social & @manuelamoschella.bsky.social. ‬ doi.org/10.1111/gove... 🧵 What we argue, and why it matters:

The combination of far too many peer review requests & an explosion of frankly mediocre papers in my field of EU industrial policy/geopolitics = hard agree. The academic publishing model is broken. One upstream answer: make hiring/tenure/promotion REALLY & EXPLICITLY about quality not quantity. 👇

Fears about the US are leading to a new world of balancing for the EU and middle powers writes @katemcnamara.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/20...

Yes, anti-everything Trump—but it’s *essential* to provide a positive vision for America that will bind people together in hope. That will be much more likely to win & set us up with a foundation for all the rebuilding of the American state & polity that needs to happen.

Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.

Critical to recognize the widespread joy at Magyar's win in Hungary from people across the ideological spectrum. Rejecting illiberalism & restoring democratic institutions is everything--even tho he is much farther to the right in his policies than some of us might want: it's not about partisanship.

Hungarians chanting “Europe!” 🇭🇺🇪🇺

🇭🇺‼️ Shy of 15% of the vote counted, projections suggest Tisza is nearing a 2/3 majority (133 seats are needed)

While we wait to see whether Orban's autocracy can be overcome in Hungary, @palmapolyak.bsky.social's essential words from a few weeks ago about the radical hope inherent in voting & democracy ring so true. 👇

Another thing that helps imposter syndrome in the academy: remembering that we are all simply part of a set of long, ongoing conversations & just contributing in the moment, rather than seeing our interventions as some sort of endpoint. Not knowing something is an opportunity, not a roadblock.

After 3 decades teaching political science, I have lately started explicitly discussing why liberal democracy is a good thing worth fighting for, rather than taking it for granted. This study is a helpful validation that what we do in the classroom can & does matter.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. 1/

This.

The global political order is in a moment of profound change--how might it be reshaping the EU? Looking forward to discussing my recent JEI article (link in comments below) on the EU's security turn at the LSE on Tuesday, March 10 at 12:15. RSVP (in person or Zoom): www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... 1/

“The gender gap in retractions is not primarily a story about individual ethics. It is a story about who leads the work that is most ambitious, most visible and most depended upon — & therefore most vulnerable to correction.” Or, how gendered structural forces still matter *a lot* in academia.

Definitive summary from @profsaunders.bsky.social of the infuriating and tragic destruction of America’s global role & powers by the Trump Admin, and its impact on the world in this terribly fraught time. 👇

The global political order is in a moment of profound change--how might it be reshaping the EU? Looking forward to discussing my recent JEI article (link in comments below) on the EU's security turn at the LSE on Tuesday, March 10 at 12:15. RSVP (in person or Zoom): www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins... 1/

After months of wrangling and an epic list of delays, the Commission has finally released its Industrial Accelerator Act. This could turn into one of the EU’s most consequential industrial policy files in years - and the proposal is honestly not a bad place to start. Some quick thoughts:

🚨🚨Symbolically important that EU countries and EU institutions shore up support for #spain in the context of fear of trade retaliation from the #Trump regime. This should be self-evident but unity of EU here is under pressure. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-s...

To all those colleague who told me repeatedly over the past year that Europe would never, ever move towards any sort of stand-alone military alliance or nuclear capacity--a reminder that we all need to unleash our political imaginations to even begin to grasp the world we live in today.

China automates while America hesitates. I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that America's strategy to compete with China in manufacturing is fundamentally misconceived — and that we're heading toward a reckoning we're not prepared for. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

A few more thoughts. USFP/natsec usually works from bottom up, even for prez-directed policies. Bureaucrats, mid-levels, political appointees work the problem, then top people bless it. Diplomacy (JCPOA) works like this. Military planning can move faster w/ prior plans, but similar. 1/

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Time to follow the amazing @proftalmadge.bsky.social for thoughtful, well-informed analysis of global security & nuclear issues, especially when bombs start to fall. 👇

The MadLib War We might attack Iran because _________.

My new piece on @goodauth.bsky.social: Can anyone stop Trump from going to war with Iran? Spoiler alert: almost certainly no. goodauthority.org/news/trump-m...

Geopolitics FTW! Enjoyed talking to @marketplace.org about Sweden’s new interest in joining the euro. Spoiler alert: its not just about the economics this time around. www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

The always brilliant @nikhil-kalyanpur.bsky.social on why the NFL platformed Bad Bunny--with a side of Hobson/Lenin's imperialism! Great stuff & also explains F1's stunning recent success at building a US audience. His substack is 🔥.

Important and really, really disturbing post about the manufacturing of consent for the American surveillance state.

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

Looked over on the other site to see which of the extraordinary journalists I admire have been laid off at WaPo (answer: most of them). Such a tragic day for democracy & for my hometown. BUT the vitriol and (a lot of bot-generated) hatred in the comments is incredible. Glad to have left that behind.

the judge put liam's picture in the court order for his release. say what you will about the decision to include the bible verses here, but jesus isn't the only one who wept.

🚨"A Market for War? The Reinforcing Logics of Europe's Security Turn" is out! What history tells us about the EU's likely political path given today's geopolitics & the emerging European military-industrial complex--& why the EU's new security role urgently requires better democratic accountability.

Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/

There is a growing network of faith communities across the US who are organizing & speaking out against the Trump administration's use of government powers for cruelty and repression. Tender green shoots of civil society resistance, but important ones.

Great conversation w/Michael Schaffer @politico.com on upheaval in global politics/what a neo-royalist world order might look like. Hint: bleak. But it is not yet consolidated. Time to crawl out of our fetal positions (@segoddard.bsky.social) and map alternatives. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“This is not a world of sovereign equality or of balancing against China. It is about extraction.” @abenewman.bsky.social on how to understand Trump’s neo-royalist reign of cruelty, coercion, & rent-seeking gone wild—none of which will end well for America or the world.

This Time Is Not Different (except there are even less competent people in charge, the international order is dead, and we have the foreign policy of a personalist dictatorship). goodauthority.org/news/what-ha...

I've been browsing the 'Posts' tab of this pack quite a bit lately — it might come in handy. It's by no means exhaustive, but as a bonus: it's gender balanced. go.bsky.app/S87TfHv

The decision to finance arms for Ukraine through collective EU debt is taboo-breaking--but also part of a larger security turn in Europe. Ophelia Bentley & I have a new piece out that shows how the EU has geopoliticized markets in an unexpected arena: competition policy. doi.org/10.1017/elo.... 1/

As Jesus famously said, "You gotta starve those poor foreigners"

A tremendous pleasure, and honor, to talk with @catherinedevries.bsky.social about the process of writing. She is a genius at writing herself, as evident in how she drew the threads of our convo together in this wonderful piece. Subscribe to her amazing substack blog to learn more. 🧵👇

As usual, the brilliant @jamellebouie.net has a diagnosis for our political ills & a path forward out of “the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship”—but only if the Democrats listen to a deeply unhappy public & act to rebuild what is being brutally destroyed.